West Virginia University

Student Lab Worker

May - August 2022 • Morgantown, WV

What I liked

This internship gave me the opportunity to experience real lab work under the supervision of a PI and PhD candidate, and allowed me to decide if this was something I wanted to go to school to do for a career.

What I wish was different

The time that the internship occurred meant that I only had about 3 weeks of summer vacation, and 4 days between the end of the internship and the start of the semester, so I experienced pretty extreme burn-out very quickly into the semester.

Advice

It is 100% worth it to have an internship under your belt, whether you want to go to grad school or not. It offers insight as to what your future could potentially look like, and you get to meet some great people!

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Undergraduate Research Assistant

May 2022 • Morgantown, WV

What I liked

I loved how I got experience working with different instruments and was able to read relevant literature to my field that I would not have read otherwise.